Taibhithe de BBC Philharmonic Orchestra ag BBC Orchestras and Choirs

The RNCM Strings Festival celebrates the versatility, beauty, and brilliance of string music through a weekend of inspiring performances and collaborations.

A full orbit of the sun with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.

City Noir is John Adams’s musical tribute to half-lit rooms, venetian blinds, desperate men, dangerous women, secrets, lies, and the City of Angels.

Join us in Nottingham for Bartók’s gripping one-act opera, Bluebeard’s Castle.

Bluebeard’s Castle by Béla Bartók sits somewhere between a gothic tale of horror and a psychological dissection of a twisted relationship.

Join us in York alongside presenter Sean Chandler for a magical, interactive performance of The Enormous Turnip, from the CBeebies series Musical Storyland at the National Centre for Early Music.

Join us in York alongside presenter Sean Chandler for a magical, interactive performance of The Enormous Turnip, from the CBeebies series Musical Storyland at the National Centre for Early Music.

Music from the court of Versailles begins and ends this sparkling exploration of the baroque.

Adam Hickox makes his Bridgewater Hall debut in this sparkling and generous programme of technicolour musical delights.

Richard Strauss’s Metamorphosen is a lament for strings, mourning the destruction of Europe in the World War II and the collapse of the musical civilisation that shaped and inspired him.

Violist Lawrence Power returns to perform Cassandra Miller’s acclaimed Viola Concerto, a piece heralded on its 2022 premiere as an instant classic.

When it comes to symphonies, Beethoven's Third symphony was a real game changer.

Who knew Haydn and hot cross buns might be related?

Rhapsodies on love, death, and lust

Join international storyteller Jan Blake, djembe player Mohamed Gueye and musicians of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra for an interactive performance of Ananse and the Monkeys for pre-schoolers.

Puccini first showcased his operatic voice through the orchestra alone with his Capriccio Sinfonico. Marking the start of his signature musical style, it blends the lyrical and dramatic qualities that later came to define his iconic operas.

Grit courses through Julia Wolfe’s *Anthracite Fields*, her Pulitzer Prize-winning oratorio for choir and ensemble that serves as a musical memorial to American miners and their struggle. *‘I guess I have a bias towards the grit.'* – Julia Wolfe

One of Debussy’s best loved musical pictures sets the mood as his faun dreams wonderous dreams. There is no better counterpart to this than Dvorak’s ardent and ever popular Cello Concerto.

Join us this Sunday at Eccles Town Hall as we’ll be performing The Gingerbread Man as part of the free 'Get In! To Eccles’ festival.

Influenced by Czech folk and expressionism, Haas’s Study for Strings is an energetic, introspective work now seen as a key piece of 20th-century Czech music.

Joshua Weilerstein makes his triumphant return to the Philharmonic in this musical postcard celebrating the 250th anniversary of American Independence.

Join us in the BBC Philharmonic Studio as we perform Haydn’s Cello Concerto in C Major, and Schumann's Spring Symphony.

Wolfe was two blocks from the Twin Towers when the planes hit on September 11, 2001. *Big Beautiful Dark and Scary* is the sound of that aftermath: an ominous, awesome wall of sound.

We continue our thrillingly up-close series at the RNCM with a heavyweight artistic collaboration – our Chief Conductor John Storgårds joins the acclaimed pianist Tamara Stefanovich in this exploration of the pure power of the piano.

Cursed by the goddess Hera, Echo may only repeat the last words spoken to her.

Berlioz’ Roman Carnival carries us to beautiful Italy where Mendelssohn’s Italian Symphony dances a wild tarantella under the sun!

Angel’s Bone is a Pulitzer Prize-winning contemporary opera by Chinese American composer Du Yun and librettist Royce Vavrek.

A stormy opening from the 19th century prolific German composer Emilie Mayer.

In this striking exploration of Nordic soundscapes, Chief Conductor John Storgårds will flex every Finnish musical muscle as he leads the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.

The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra returns to Aviva Studios for their next groundbreaking collaboration with Factory International. *‘Watching an orchestra in this way is a one of a kind experience.

A landmark live concert celebrating two decades of BAFTA-nominated and award-winning games music.

A landmark live concert celebrating two decades of BAFTA-nominated and award-winning games music.

Musicians of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra perform a live musical re-telling of Three Billy Goats Gruff, as seen on CBeebies.

Musicians of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra perform a live musical re-telling of Three Billy Goats Gruff, as seen on CBeebies.

Musicians of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra perform a live musical re-telling of Three Billy Goats Gruff, as seen on CBeebies.

Mahler’s Resurrection is a colossal work of drama, beauty, and power.

We join RNCM student conductors and International Artist Diploma musicians for an afternoon of extraordinary music making in the BBC Philharmonic Studio.

We join RNCM student conductors and International Artist Diploma musicians for an afternoon of extraordinary music making in the BBC Philharmonic Studio.

We return to Blackpool for the first time in 8 years with an ambitious programme in Blackpool’s historic Opera House.

Join us for an unforgettable concert in the heart of Yorkshire as we take part in Harrogate Music Festival.

Join us at Snape Maltings Concert Hall for an evening of Kodály, Mendelssohn and the world premiere of Deborah Pritchard's Nightingale.

Words and music, presented at the Philharmonic Studio as part of the BBC’s much-loved festival of music and speech.

Join us for the opening concert of our 2026/27 season at the Bridgewater Hall – featuring Sibelius Symphony No. 5, Wagner’s Overture to Lohengrin and Gabriella Smith’s organ concerto, Breathing Forests.

Music of death and the divine – Brahms’s German Requiem and Lili Boulanger’s Psalm 24.

Join us in Linz with our Principal Guest Conductor Anja Bihlmaier for an evening of Brahms and Boulanger.

Join us in Dortmund with our Principal Guest Conductor Anja Bihlmaier for an evening of Ligeti, Tchaikovsky, and Beethoven.

Join us in Bonn with our Principal Guest Conductor Anja Bihlmaier for an evening of Boulanger and Brahms.

Join us in Frankfurt with our Principal Guest Conductor Anja Bihlmaier for an evening of Ligeti, Tchaikovsky, and Beethoven.

Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathétique’ sits alongside Korngold’s cinematically inspired Violin Concerto.

Leader Zoë Beyers leads the latest instalment in our series at the RNCM – music from William Byrd, Benjamin Britten, Errollyn Wallen, Edmund Finnis, Tom Coult and Michael Tippett.

Visit our recording studio at MediaCityUK and witness the orchestra as we broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 to millions of listeners around the world. These 60-minute afternoon concerts are hosted by a range of star presenters from across the BBC.

Alina Ibragimova is soloist for Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto, alongside Mahler’s heaven-sent Symphony No. 4 and Cassandra Miller’s Swim.

A landmark collaboration with the V&A East Museum and Friday Night is Music Night, celebrating the impact of Black British music on British culture.

A jazz-inflected programme from Grammy-nominated Miho Hazama, chief conductor of the Danish Radio Big Band, including Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with soloist Makoto Ozone.

Experience Strauss’s Alpine Symphony – a 50-minute, twenty-two-scene depiction of an eleven-hour climb over an Alpine mountain, alongside two contrasting scenes from Robert Schumann with soloist Cédric Tiberghien.

Programme to include music by Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland and William L. Dawson

Hayato Sumino returns to the Philharmonic to perform Bernstein’s epic work for piano and orchestra, his Symphony No. 2, ‘Age of Anxiety’, alongside Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5.

Join us for an afternoon of Joceyln Morlock’s Golden, Helen Grime's, Bright Travellers and Strauss’s Death and Transfiguration.

John Storgärds leads the next chapter of his exploration of Shostakovich symphonies – this time with the triumphant Symphony No. 7, ‘Leningrad’. Before this, Shostakovich up close with his Quartet No. 8 performed by the NOVO Quartet.

Beethoven’s era-defining Symphony No. 5, meets Caroline Shaw’s Entr’acte and Haydn’s Cello Concerto with soloist Daniel Müller-Schott.

Ephemeral forms open out into a lyrical spring morning in Boulanger’s D’un matin de printemps.

Guitarist Sean Shibe collaborates with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra to present an intimate programme at the RNCM examining the pageantry, rites and emotions of funeral music, ancient and modern.

Visit our recording studio at MediaCityUK and witness the orchestra as we broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 to millions of listeners around the world. These 60-minute afternoon concerts are hosted by a range of star presenters from across the BBC.

Walton’s frenzied Symphony No. 1 sits alongside the contrasting landscape of Vaughan Williams’s Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis, before the world premiere from Composer in Residence, Cassandra Miller.

Beethoven’s epic, uplifting ‘Choral’ Symphony No. 9 sits alongside Roderick Williams’s Ave Verum Corpus Re-imagined, Pauline Oliveros’s Tuning Meditation and John Adams’s Absolute Jest.

Mozart’s sparkling Horn Concerto No. 4 meets the majesty of Mendelssohn’s Fingal’s Cave and sunshine-drenched world of his ‘Reformation’ Symphony.

Visit our recording studio at MediaCityUK and witness the orchestra as we broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 to millions of listeners around the world. These 60-minute afternoon concerts are hosted by a range of star presenters from across the BBC.

Pianist Pavel Kolesnikov collaborates with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra at the RNCM for a programme of Mozart, Britten and John Adams.

A special live version of the Essential Classics Playlister, presented by the host of BBC Radio 3’s daily weekday show, Georgia Mann.

Johanna Soller directs from the harpsichord this collaboration with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra at the RNCM, featuring J.S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto’s Nos. 1 and 2, alongside music from Zelenka, Heinichen and W.F. Bach.